Miss. Code § 99-1-5 : — CRIMINAL PROCEDUREGENERAL PROVISIONS; TIME LIMITATIONS; COSTS —1-5 - [Effective 7/1/2023] Time limitation on prosecutions
(1)(a) The passage of time shall never bar prosecution against any person for the offenses of murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, aggravated domestic violence, kidnapping, arson, burglary, forgery, counterfeiting, robbery, larceny, rape, embezzlement, obtaining money or property under false pretenses or by fraud, felonious abuse or battery of a child as described in Section
97-5-39, touching or handling a child for lustful purposes as described in Section
97-5-23, sexual battery of a child as described in Section
97-3-95(1)(c), (d) or (2), exploitation of children as described in Section
97-5-33, promoting prostitution under Section
97-29-51(2)when the person involved is a minor, or any human trafficking offense as described in Section
97-3-54.1(1)(a), (1)(b) or (1)(c), Section
97-3-54.2, or Section
97-3-54.3.
(b) A person shall not be prosecuted for felonious assistance-program fraud, as described in Section
97-19-71, or for felonious abuse of vulnerable persons, as described in Sections
43-47-18 and
43-47-19, unless the prosecution for the offense is commenced within five (5) years next after the commission thereof.
(c) A person shall not be prosecuted for larceny of timber as described in Section
97-17-59, unless the prosecution for the offense is commenced within six (6) years next after the commission thereof.
(d) The time limitation on prosecution for conspiracy, as described in Section
97-1-1, shall be the same as for the underlying offense for which the defendant is accused of conspiring to commit.
(2) A person shall not be prosecuted for any other offense not listed in this section unless the prosecution for the offense is commenced within two (2) years next after the commission thereof.
(3) Nothing contained in this section shall bar any prosecution against any person who shall abscond or flee from justice, or shall absent himself from this state or out of the jurisdiction of the court, or so conduct himself that he cannot be found by the officers of the law, or that process cannot be served upon him.